"Rural America’s Drinking-Water Crisis"
"Sparsely populated, low-income communities across the country suffer from polluted water—an injustice expected to worsen under Trump."
Source: New Republic, 02/13/2018
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"Chemours' GenX Pollution Worries Spread To West Virginia"
"A Teflon chemical that last year contaminated a North Carolina river that provides drinking water to a region of more than 200,000 people also has been detected at a well under a Chemours facility in West Virginia, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 02/12/2018
"Toxic Vapor Tests Lag For Thousands Of Michigan Sites"
"276 Michiganians were ushered or barred from homes and other sites due to possible cancerous fumes. People were relocated from sites in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Sturgis, according to the state."
Source: Detroit News, 02/08/2018
"GOP Lawmakers Take Aim at WHO Agency Over Roundup Ingredient"
"Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization’s cancer research program over its finding that the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans."
Source: AP, 02/07/2018
Arctic Is Full Of Toxic Mercury; Climate Change Is Going To Release It
As climate change melts Arctic permafrost, it will release toxic mercury, scientists say.
Source: Washington Post, 02/06/2018
"Monsanto Faces Farmer Antitrust Suit on Dicamba, Resistant Seed"
"Monsanto Corp. faces a treble damages class action alleging that its pesticide Dicamba poses such a risk to farmers they are forced to purchase resistant seed — marketed under patent at high prices by Monsanto — to avoid catastrophic damage to their crops from pesticide drift."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/06/2018
Floods Are Getting Worse, and 2,500 Chemical Sites Lie in Water’s Path
"Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain and industrial data shows. About 1,400 are located in areas at highest risk of flooding."
Source: NY Times, 02/06/2018
"What’s GenX Still Doing In The Water Downstream Of A Chemours Plant?"
"Despite efforts to prevent the industrial fluoroether from getting into North Carolina drinking water, it’s still present. Scientists are racing to find out why".
Source: C&EN, 02/05/2018
EPA Program To Study Toxic Chemicals Fights for Its Life — Against EPA
"A small but vitally important program within the Environmental Protection Agency is in a fight for its life. The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of the EPA that independently assesses the toxicity of chemicals."
Source: The Intercept, 02/05/2018
Trump to Again Propose Eliminating Chemical Safety Board, Official Says
"President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposal will again call for ending the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent agency that investigates major industrial accidents, according to a senior government official familiar with the plan."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/02/2018
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